Koestler

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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

Koestler, Arthur 1905-1983. Hungarian-born British writer whose novel Darkness at Noon (1941) portrays his disillusionment with Communism. His other works include The Sleepwalkers (1959) and The Ghost in the Machine (1967).

We learn, too, that more than a million refugees passed through the city's increasingly pricey hotels, including Peggy Guggenheim, Max Ernst, Marc Chagall, Arthur Koestler and Calouste Gulbenkian—the Armenian oil magnate known as "Mr. Five Per Cent" for his share of the deals he brokered.